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Milky Way中星际气体的三维空间分布:宇宙射线和高能Gamma-Ray辐射的意义

The Three-Dimensional Spatial Distribution of Interstellar Gas in the Milky Way: Implications for Cosmic Rays and High-Energy Gamma-Ray Emissions

Gudlaugur Johannesson, Troy A. Porter, Igor V. Moskalenko

摘要:

宇宙射线(CR)种类的直接测量结合其相关的伽马射线发射的观测可以用来约束CR传播模型,跟踪银河系的结构,并寻找新物理的签名。星际气体的空间密度分布是所有这些研究的关键要素。到目前为止,模型采用了二维圆柱对称的几何形状,但其精度远远落后于现有的数据。本文根据天然气管线测量数据拟合的经验模型,建立了中性氢和分子氢的三维空间密度模型。发达的密度模型纳入螺旋臂和帐户的翘曲的磁盘,并增加气体规模的高度与径向距离银河系中心。他们一起使用的GALPROP CR传播代码,探讨如何新的三维气体模型影响计算CR传播和高能伽马射线强度图。计算揭示了与新气体模型直接相关的重要特征。采用三维气体模型的传播模型参数的最佳拟合值,它们显着不同的值与已被广泛使用的二维气体密度模型。3D CR和气体密度模型的结合为解释银河系的非热辐射提供了更现实的基础。

英文摘要:

Direct measurements of cosmic ray (CR) species combined with observations of their associated gamma-ray emissions can be used to constrain models of CR propagation, trace the structure of the Galaxy, and search for signatures of new physics. The spatial density distribution of the interstellar gas is a vital element for all these studies. So far models have employed the 2D cylindrically symmetric geometry, but their accuracy is well behind that of the available data. In this paper, 3D spatial density models for the neutral and molecular hydrogen are constructed based on empirical model fitting to gas line-survey data. The developed density models incorporate spiral arms and account for the warping of the disk, and the increasing gas scale height with radial distance from the Galactic center. They are employed together with the GALPROP CR propagation code to investigate how the new 3D gas models affect calculations of CR propagation and high-energy gamma-ray intensity maps. The calculations made reveal non-trivial features that are directly related to the new gas models. The best-fit values for propagation model parameters employing 3D gas models are presented and they differ significantly from the values derived with the 2D gas density models that have been widely used. The combination of 3D CR and gas density models provide a more realistic basis for the interpretation of non-thermal emissions from the Galaxy.

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